I fear that if I left some of your claims unanswered, anyone who has not read my report in detail might be misled as to its core arguments and position, and hence I shall focus on those issues below...Your “Critique 2” addresses what is perhaps the most central point in my critique of the Norms, and I take slight issue with your rendition...[B]y asking me to build my mandate on the Norms, as you and other human rights groups have done on numerous occasions, you are asking me, in essence, to build it on what I regard as the analytical equivalent of quicksand – quite apart from the obvious political fact that neither governments nor business have shown any interest in basing my mandate on the Norms. Needless to say, I have every intention of taking advantage of the useful elements produced by the Norms effort, which were acknowledged by the Human Rights Commission and are identified in my report.